Re: setproctitle_fast()

2018-07-07 Thread Thomas Munro
On Sat, Jul 7, 2018 at 11:57 PM, Emre Hasegeli wrote: >> FreeBSD's setproctitle() is a bit slow because it contains a syscall >> or two, so people often run PostgreSQL with update_process_title set >> to off on that OS. That makes the user experience not quite as nice >> as Linux. As a weekend

Re: setproctitle_fast()

2018-07-07 Thread Emre Hasegeli
> FreeBSD's setproctitle() is a bit slow because it contains a syscall > or two, so people often run PostgreSQL with update_process_title set > to off on that OS. That makes the user experience not quite as nice > as Linux. As a weekend learn-me-some-kernel-hacking project I fixed > that and got

setproctitle_fast()

2018-07-04 Thread Thomas Munro
on an AWS m4.10xlarge instance. I'll park this patch here until the FreeBSD feature escapes in a RELEASE version in a few months. For anyone interested, https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FreeBSD has some notes on this and other such things. -- Thomas Munro http://www.enterprisedb.com 0001-Use-setproc